Quirky’s latest product is a backpack that will both hold and charge all of your gadgets

We love the business model of the guys over at Quirky, which crowdsources the design of cool new projects and then promises to actually manufacture them when they get enough preorders for the winning design. And we also love their latest design, which is just now reaching the preorder phase: the new Trek Support backpack, which doesn’t just hold all your gadgets… it charges them to boot.

The Trek Support backpack features a comfortable clamshell design with a large main pocket for a laptop or an iPad, as well as outer pockets that will holds your smaller gadgets. Padded nylon boards and mesh pockets help keep everything in place while you’re jogging around.

It’s the bottom of the bag that is the real star though: it contains a rechargeable battery that will charge your gadgets while you’re about. Running out of juice? Just plop your bag down and plug it in and not only will the battery recharge, but the entire backpack will work as a power strip for your other gadgets.

I love the concept here, although unfortunately not the style: I haven’t worn this style of backpack since I was hauling fifty pounds of books back and forth from my high school perched atop my rapidly deforming teenage spine. Still, I’d happily take a messenger bag with this technology, especially at the price, which seems alright to me at just $130.